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Those who oppose both the Assad regime and the Jihadists and all the imperialist powers, need to focus on a glaring fact: Support for Assad and Putin has become a rallying cry for Western white supremacist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic organizations and parties. We need to show that opposing the Assad regime's war on the Syrian masses is absolutely nec […]

„We hereby announce the world’s press that 30 people has started on unlimited hunger strike to protect our own and our families’ lives for the imprisonment, torture, repression, and especially death.

We went into action from Tuesday 14th September 2010, at. 12.00 at Christiansborg Castle Square in Copenhagen. Please read on for more information.

We have fled from one of the worst dictatorial regimes in the world and have sought asylum in one of the leading democratic countries, Denmark.

As a result of refusals in our asylum applications, and as a last resort, we have decided to hunger strike to death to stop forced deportations to Syria.

Despite that Syria is considered by the international community as a dictator stat with a systematic violation of human rights, is still tragically however considered by the Danish state as a safe country to deport politically active people back to by force, well knowing that they will face imprisonment, torture, disappearances and even death.

The existing regime in Syria uses many tools to suppress any form of political organization and activities oby various violent actions as torture, wrongful imprisonment, and other medieval practices as several hundred reports could not even describe, are continuously being ignored worldwide.

The Kurdish minority in Syria is experiencing, besides those injustices, a systematic chauvinistic policy against the Kurds. As an example, the Kurds experienced a deprivation of their civil rights, where Kurds are classified as the “third category “, with no civil rights whatsoever.

We hunger strikes until our demands for deportation ceases, and our cases be reviewed again, or we die with honor intact.

Better to die than to disappear into the regime’s prisons with the systematic violation of our natural, human rights.

We urge all democratic forces in Denmark and the international community to support around our action and help bring our message to media and the appropriate bodies, thereby putting pressure on the Danish government to stop these deportations of Kurds to an unknown fate in Syria most likely leading to death.

Workers from the Vestas wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight who are set to lose their jobs are staging a sit-in protest at the firm’s offices.

Danish company Vestas Windsystems is laying off 625 workers at the end of July, despite rising profits. It said the Newport factory was being closed due to reduced demand for wind turbines in northern Europe.

About 20 people inside the offices in Cowes have vowed to remain there until „somebody listens to us“. They began their protest at about 1930 BST.

Workers and their unions have previously called for government action to preserve jobs at a time when ministers are pledging a commitment to renewable energy.

One protester said: „It is our last-ditch attempt to save the jobs. This is a green industry and the government keep harping on about how much they want to get all these hundreds of thousands of green jobs going. But then they go and close the only wind turbine plant in England. The government offered to give Vestas money to keep it going, but apparently Vestas turned this down. What we would like to see is the government actually taking it over and possibly nationalising it.“

Police officers are in attendance at the protest, which was described as peaceful. No arrests have been made.

The Vestas factory is set to shut at the end of July with the loss of 525 jobs at the blade manufacturing and research plant at Newport, and a further 100 in Southampton.

The news of the job cuts came as the organisation, which is the world’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines, reported a quarterly sales rise of 59% to 1.11bn euros.

Vestas is one of the largest employers of skilled labour on the island.

„In mainland China, self-organized grass root labor unions, catalyzed by workers’ resistance, are extremely rare. Fortunately, such a labor union was established at Ole Wolff Electronics China in Yantai city, Shandong Province two years ago. However, it now finds itself pressed between the hammer and the anvil of capital in association with local government. Then, even rarer is that the workplace union made an appeal to international trade union movement and got a response.

In 2006, several workers complained about their employer — Ole Wolff Electronics Yantai, a Danish funded company — to the local Labor Bureau in Yantai municipality, when they could no longer put up with over-exploitation and arbitrary dismissals. Their complaint was followed by strikes and protests. In order to safeguard their legitimate rights, the workers established a labor union. The response of the employer was to dismiss six of the worker’s representatives, all were women. The employer threatened the labor union committee to refrain from strikes and other forms of resistance and ultimately fired the acting chairperson of the labor union, who was a spokesperson for the workers.

Under pressure from the labor union, the local court ruled that it was illegal for the employer to have dismissed the six workers’ representatives. However, the employer refused to comply with the verdict when it received backing from the local Labor Bureau. The local Labor Bureau had sided with the employer throughout the events. As far as the local trade union, the Fushan District ACFTU (All-China Federation of Trade Unions), was concerned, they acknowledged the legal status of the Ole Wolff Yantai Trade Union (abbr. OWYTU) when it was founded, in response to the sympathy with the workers displayed by the National ACFTU, Beijing. However, when this sympathy dwindled, they changed their attitude, siding openly with the management as the situation developed.“